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- 6361: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... wasted on a goal that seems unrealizable. "In 1989, a Republican county executive of Mercer County, NJ estimated that it would cost as much as one billion dollars to build the jail space needed to house all of the drug offenders in Trenton alone" (Nadelmann 13). By lifting the ban on marijuana and treating it like other drugs such as tobacco and alcohol, the nation would gain both immediate and long ...
- 6362: Gun Control and Why People Think It Is Unfair
- ... every year due to drug and gang related incidents involving guns. For example in 1988 on February 26 rookie New York City police officer Edward Byre was sitting alone in his police car guarding the house of a drug trial witness in South Jamaica, Queens where he was shot four times in the head and killed. In conclusion there are valid reasons for why certain people feel that gun control is ...
- 6363: Case for Legalizing Marijuana What
- ... 11. p365-347. LEXICON PUBLICATIONS. Philippines, 1979 2. Lorimer, Lawrence; "Marijuana" Encyclopedia Year Book 1993. p214-215. GROLIER INCORPORATED. Canada, 1993 3. Snyder, Solomon. The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs. Series 2. LEGALIZATION: A DEBATE. CHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERS. New York, 1988
- 6364: Bobbies
- ... at Oxford where he became the first person to earn the prestige of being at the head of the class in both classics and mathematics. At the end of the Napoleonic wars, Peel entered the House of Commons as a government supporter at twenty-one. At twenty-four, Peel moved to Ireland where he accomplished various things including securing the suppression in 1814 of the Catholic Board, introducing the Peace Preservation ...
- 6365: Juvenile Justice System In America
- ... was often severe. In the U.S., child criminals were treated as adult criminals. Sentences for all offenders could be harsh and the death penalty was occasionally imposed. The First institution expressly for juveniles, the House of Refuge, was founded in New York City in 1824 so that institutionalized delinquents could be kept apart from adult criminals. By the mid-19th century, other state institutions for juvenile delinquents were established, and ...
- 6366: Gun Control in the U.S.
- ... gun on the whim, but it actually protects the common criminal. Underage buyers and other delinquents can purchase mass quantities of weapons through "dummy buyers" that have clean backgrounds. So if a burglar enters a house with full intention to maim or kill, the innocent victim (who can't get a gun to protect his family because he was arrested for drunk driving seven years ago) is simply a victim of ...
- 6367: Legalizing Marijuana Legislation
- ... marijuana he had to take 15-20 of the strongest painkillers each day to relieve him of his pain. He said while he was on this medication he would not be able to leave the house due to the amount that these pills altered his mind. Once he stopped taking these pills, and began to smoke marijuana instead, he was able to function much better. These cases along with other similar ...
- 6368: R.I.C.O
- ... be, charged and one crime (if it violates both state and federal statutes) considered sufficient to show a racketeering pattern (Greek 1991). The Impeachment of the President of the United States in 1998 by the House of Representatives and Senate seeking to remove the President William Jefferson Clinton from office could be actionable under RICO. If found quilty on the charges of Witness Tampering, and Obstruction of Justice from the Senate ...
- 6369: Gun Control
- ... every year due to drug and gang related incidents involving guns. For example in 1988 on February 26 rookie New York City police officer Edward Byre was sitting alone in his police car guarding the house of a drug trial witness in South Jamaica, Queens where he was shot four times in the head and killed. In conclusion there are valid reasons for why certain people feel that gun control is ...
- 6370: Thesis: More should be done to reform the United States Prison System
- ... Great Writ' Hit". Newsweek. May 6, 1996. pg. 72 Towle, Lisa H. and Witkowski, Tom. "Not In My Backyard!". Time. September 5, 1994. pg. 59 Van, Hilleary. "Van's View From Capitol Hill". Http://www.house.gov/hilleary/c13797 .htm. Access date: 9/16/98. pg. 1, 2. Van Atta, Dale. "The Scandal of Prisoner Lawsuits". Reader's Digest. April, 1996. pg. 66, 67, 68.
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